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Cricket Australia rope in Samaraweera as batting consultant

Thilan Samaraweera has been working with Australia's batsmen
on turning tracks ready to resemble the ones they could meeting in Sri Lanka

Former Sri Lanka batsman Thilan Samaraweera is working with
some Australia Test players in front of their tour to Sri Lanka, in his brief
counseling spell at Australia's National Cricket Center in Brisbane.

Samaraweera has been procured as a specialist for the
foundation from June to August. Despite the fact that his part is not
particularly equipped towards get ready Australia Test players for the
prospective visit, he has as of now controlled with Adam Voges, Shaun Marsh, andJackson Bird, as
they get ready for the visit.

"Right now I'm compulsory with the National Cricket
Academy (NCA) in Brisbane," Samaraweera
said. "I'm working with a couple Test players who are not comprised
in that West Indies tri-arrangement. They are simply coming here to
prepare."

Samaraweera,
who lives in Melbourne, said
he was impractical to go with the Australia group on their Sri Lanka visit, and
that he was likewise working with Australia's a cooperative individuals. He had
a past stretch at the association, in front of the Under-19 World Cup in
Bangladesh prior this year, which the Australia Under-19 side in the long run
pulled back from.

Cricket Australia has moreover arranged two turning
contributes at the institute request to copy Sri Lankan circumstances. It is on
these exteriors that Samaraweerahas
been working with the Test players.

"I've had a hit on the twist wicket here and it's great
- primarily the same as what you get on the subcontinent and it was a testing
net session," Marsh said. "Samaraweera was mixing a couple offies
also, and it's been better than average to visit to him and get a touch of a
knowledge into the kind of circumstances we'll be challenging in the following
couple of months. He's been assisting with counsel on the most proficient
method to play turn, he's great to talk about that with."

Procuring mentors adjusted to neighborhood conditions isn't
another idea for Australia. S Sriram, the previous India batsman, was consultant
of the A group for their voyage through India in 2015 and the senior squad for
the World T20 in 2016, Muttiah
Muralitharan, the previous Sri Lanka spinner, was earmarked into
work with the spinners amid Australia's Test voyage through UAE in 2014. Allan
Donald, in April this year, was designated as the group's quick rocking the
bowling alley tutor for their voyage through Sri Lanka.

Australia touch base in Sri Lanka toward the beginning of
July, well in front of the main Test, which starts in Pallekele on July 26.